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When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.
People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.
When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being.
One awakens, one rises, one dresses, and one goes forth; One returns, one dines, one sups, one retires and one sleeps.
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.
Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.
Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.
The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though. You can play your heart out, everyone don't get a ring though.
What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.
I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
We must remember there are different seasons in our lives and let God do what He wants to do in each of those seasons.
A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your future.
You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.
If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.
Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"
It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Pray. Trust God. Enjoy life. Don't let the little things get you down.
They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.